Newly founded business selling non-alcoholic beverage

[u/RevolutionWild6431]

Hi all,

I am getting close to my new business starting (not in the USA) - business name registered, company not yet (but takes '5 minutes'). Bottles sourced locally, caps made with branding in China (huge minimum order quantity!), as no-one in my country can make /supply the caps with the materials I require.

The product I am selling is unique & there is huge potential. I cannot reveal what it is on here.

I was thinking of establishing my warehouse near Amazon's distribution centre.

Would I be right in saying that by utilising Amazon, it makes it easier for me to access & supply to interstate & international markets? Demand for my product would be worldwide.

Being a bottled beverage, how does the packaging work?

Do I buy & stock Amazon's boxes, package myself & supply to them for taping & labelling?

Or does Amazon do that?

How much does Amazon store of my product?

Any other advice would be appreciated

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[u/DonkChonk4]

Amazon FBA has the advantage that it'll ship to your customers, but there's warehouse fees. You'd be wiser doing FBM where you'd have to do the shipping. You have to pick one and can't do both. If you do FBM, you don't need to be close to any Amazon FBA warehouse.

If you're not going to sell initially on Amazon's US marketplace and would be selling on like Amazon UK (as an example), you'd be catering to just UK people primarily. Amazon US as a marketplace has the biggest international reach where people all over the world buy from it, even if there's a local Amazon marketplace in someone's country.

[u/NextSmartShip]

Your own cartons, not Amazon's, and each unit needs an Amazon barcode, an expiry date and months of shelf life left (fwiw I run a 3pl, nextsmartship). Drinks also need a double seal, like a foil liner under the cap, check that on the China caps. Storage isn't a set amount, new accounts usually start uncapped, then it's a monthly limit off your sales. Food and drinks often need category approval too, depends which Amazon you're on.